Category Archives: Crimes

Crimes, Religion, Sexual abuse by clergy, Vatican, World Organisations

‘Payout chart’ for molestation: Secret archive held chilling details of clergy abuse

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By Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer March 3 2016

A Catholic diocese in Pennsylvania announced Thursday that it will post the names online of priests credibly accused of sexually abusing children, a decision that came two days after a dramatic grand jury report alleged a decades-long cover-up.

Advocates hope that the grand jury report, which was announced just two days after the movie “Spotlight” focused national attention on child sexual abuse by winning the Oscar for Best Picture, will lead to new legislation permitting more prosecutions of abusive priests and those who supervised them. Continue reading ‘Payout chart’ for molestation: Secret archive held chilling details of clergy abuse →

Crimes, Health, Symphysiotomy, United Nations

Survivors of Symphysiotomy Submission to UN Human Rights Council

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Survivors of Symphysiotomy ireland

Posted on September 22, 2015

The UN will carry out a review of Ireland in 2016. Read our submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council:

This submission outlines the torture, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, perpetrated on three generations of women in Ireland by doctors who carried out destructive and non-consensual childbirth operations (‘symphysiotomy’) in the absence of medical necessity; and shows why Ireland’s failure to protect these women then, and to vindicate their rights now, constitutes a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,the UN Convention Against Torture, the European Convention of Human Rights, and the UN General Assembly Body of Basic Principles. Continue reading Survivors of Symphysiotomy Submission to UN Human Rights Council →

Bolivia, Crimes, Pope Francis, Saints, Vatican, World Organisations

Pope’s apology doesn’t change opinions on Serra canonization

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Pope’s apology doesn’t change opinions on Serra canonization A woman passed a statue of Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra at the Mission San Diego de Acala in San Diego earlier this year. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

By Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press September 7, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO — Pope Francis’ apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s crimes against indigenous peoples has not softened opposition among some California Native Americans to his decision to canonize 18th-century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra.  Serra is extolled by the Vatican as a great evangelizer, but denounced by some tribal officials as a destroyer of Native culture. Continue reading Pope’s apology doesn’t change opinions on Serra canonization →